ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year and how much licensees can expect to pay. According to its annual Cost Recovery Implementation Statement (CRIS), ASIC said ...

In this week’s episode of Relative Return Insider, AMP chief economist Shane Oliver joins the show to explore the major global and domestic forces shaping investment markets in 2025, from ongoing ...

DASH declined to comment on what the capital raising would be used for or how much it is. David Kirk, Bailador co-founder and managing partner, said: “DASH has made very pleasing progress since we ...

Over the same period, the levy for advisers has risen from $24.1 million in FY25 to $78 million in FY26 and is set to reach an expected $120 million in FY27, with 90 per cent of complaints to the CSLR ...

With AT1s being phased out, what alternatives can advisers use to replace these assets and the income they provide? Prudential regulator, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), announced ...

Private wealth manager Escala Partners has increased its alternatives allocations to more than a third in the past three years, describing the asset class as offering “fertile ground” for ...

ASIC is calling on licensees to review their client onboarding practices to avoid vulnerabilities associated with share sale fraud, noting particular vulnerabilities which use white labelling services ...

Aussie wealth manager Shaw and Partners has made its entry into the New Zealand market with a 75 per cent acquisition of investment firm Investment Services Group (ISG). The stake was acquired for ...

In asset management specifically, PwC said there are three areas which are seeing the most M&A activity: acquiring the investment management businesses of insurance companies, acquiring companies that ...

As cryptocurrency has worked its way into mainstream investing, seven in 10 have said they would be interested in receiving advice on the asset class, however most advisers aren’t yet equipped to meet ...

In its latest Australian Asset Manager report for the second quarter of 2025, Morningstar equity analyst Shaun Ler said: “With large passive shops using scale to lower prices to attract assets, active ...

Chris Hill, national manager of strategic relationships at AUSIEX, said: “While traditional ETFs that track indices still dominate the market, equal weighted ETFs offer a way to dilute the influence ...